San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-18
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


drill project. Her capital stock Is placed
at $50,0O0 and OF this amount $4,000 is
already subscribed.
WITH Sherman in Alaska, Blaine In
Europe and Carter Harrison in the Holy
Land. the democratic agitatOrs are get
ting decidedly lonesome.
A CINCINNATI paper reading the signs
OF the times wrongly, remarks ITO st.
Louisisns G. A. X. means Growers Ar
rival Retarded" 1t should be, Growers
Assumption Rebuked.
SAN ANTONIO hears every day that her
glory as a wool market has departed,
yet she has paid over $4,000 for fieeOes
this year and will pay 100000 more be-
fore the year closes. This means about
5000, 600 pounds.
FREDDIE GERHARD keeps quietly, per-
sistently, faithfully 10 attendance upon
his Lilly and seems willing to emulate
Jacob, in his service for his beloved
Rachael, in his patient waiting for the
flower OF Jersey.
EVEN the silent jewellers In the hos
pice OF 5. Bernard have caught the
spirit OF the age and no longer content
to remain apart have established tele-
phone communication with the valleys
below.
The Fort Worth Gazette, feeling the
impending shadow creeping over its
threshold, rises to remark: "WOe to
that democrat in Texas who loads his
gun with radical wad to shoot at
fellow democrat" jess so.
GALVESTON is strainIng her eyes, hourly
expecting the arrival of those sixteen
one thousand dollar bonds of the per-
manent school fund which Treasurer
Burke took in a fit of abstraction and
has signified his intention of returning.
WACO state executive Ommittee wind
up their business, provide for the 81 200
unmet expenses of the campaign, re-
solve to continue their state Organiza-
ton on a nOn-partisan basis and adjourn
sine die. The nOn-p8rtiZan character
of the basis will be hereafter deter
mined.
The authenticity of yesterdays dis
patch, containing information of Ex-
plOrer Stanley's death, is,discredited at
the British foreign office. The British
agent al Zanzibar has sent no such in
formation. Two continents unite in the
earnest hope that there is no truth In
the report.
ARTICLES OF Incorporation have been
filed for an air line railway from Kansas
City to Sabine Pass. This would give
Kansas City the shortest possible route
to the sea board, and no doubt hasten
the completion OF the work at the Pass
which Growers veto of the river and
hsrbor has stopped.
The case against ex-Alderman Woods,
Of Waco, is dismissed and the two col
ored women who induced the child by
threats and promises to make the Grim
mating affidavit are in Jail charged with
subOrnatiOn Of perjury. They will
probably go over the road tor term.
THE Kerrville Eye is as full of defeat
as Hackensack march is Of skeeters.
1t recognizes the corpse, but glOwers at
the pail bearers and resents the burial.
John Sullivan seems to have given the
Eye whack and its vision is very pris-
matte.
FORT WORTH GAZETTE and Houston
Post take ne stock in the reading-out
programme suggested by Chairman
Clark and Roger Q. Mills. The more
important question is, how will the
primaries take next summer?
ONE of the sanguinary and Democrat
cally sanguine editors of this state,
reading that Blaine is about to visit
Italy, expresses the pious hope that
cholera will do its fatal work in his case
and so relieve this burdened editor from
the incubies OF the great republicans
presence. The prayers of the wicked
are an Accumulation TO the Lord "
LAREDO lie agitating the question Of
using the blue Stone" rejected by the
capitol commissioners, in the cOnstruc-
ton OF the masonry of the smelters.
The stone Is found in ineXhaustible
quantities along the line of the Rio
Grande and Eagle Pass, and If it proves
as desirable as its advocates claim. will
be q real bonanza to Laredo building en-
terprise
NOBODY's OK is gOred. The Post and
all other journals that agitate them
| selves unnecessarily over radical repub-
| lioanism should remember that the
weather is sultry and Houston has al
| ready had one case of sunstrOke. Strad-
| ding the barbed wire fence OF prohibi-
ton is an easy rOOstin z place compared
to the thOrny seat Of republican uncer-
tainties upon which so many demo-
cratic journalists are moving uneasily.
THERE is much cry and little wool over
the opposition to the new Hawaiian con-
stitutiOn. The irresponsible govern
ment Of that island Is at an end. The
foreigners who have ruled it by pander-
ing to the vices Of the king are dethrOn-
ed and constitutional monarchy Is es-
tablished. The change cannot but be
/ beneficial. There will no doubt be some
tall scrambling for legislative place, but
there are no indications Of any revolt
from the new order of thingg. Since
the queen returned there has nothing
been heard Of the king, and all seems
serene IS the air Of the islands.